Stage Credits

Date Role Title Notes Ref
01/07/1941 Actor Spotlight entry. Available for Rep Living in Richmond
David Kentish, Spotlight - Summer 1941
Spotlight – Summer 1941
 1
24/09/1941 Actor It’s A Wise Child, ENSA [Roger] ENSA 1
01/10/1941 Actor Spotlight entry. Available for Rep Living in Richmond
Spotlight - Winter 1941
Spotlight – Winter 1941
 2
Aug 31 1944 – 1945 Stage Manager Peer Gynt New Century Theatre 14
Sep 5 1944 – 1946 Stage Manager Arms and the Man New Century Theatre ibid.
Sep 13 1944 – 1945 Actor / Stage Manager Richard III [Lord Rivers] New Century Theatre ibid.
Jan 16 – May 1945 Stage Manager Uncle Vanya New Century Theatre
John Sullivan, the stage director, and his two stage managers, Diana Boddington and David Kentish. The Tatler & Bystander
Apr 18 1945 Uncle Vanya
 ibid.
Sep 26 1945 Actor King Henry IV, Part I  [Lord Mortimer, Earl of March, ASM] New Century Theatre. The Old Vic Company, Lawrence Olivier ibid.
Oct 18 1945 – 1946 Stage Manager The Critic New Century Theatre ibid.
29/04/1945 Stage Manager Numerous Olivier productions, as actor and manager with Ruth Hill as assistant New Century Theatre 3
1946 – 1948   Richard II New Century Theatre  
May 6, 1946 – Jun 22, 1946 Actor King Henry IV, Part I  [Lord Mortimer] New Century Theatre. The Old Vic Company, Lawrence Olivier 4
1945, May 7, 1946 – Jun 22, 1946 Actor King Henry IV, Part II  [Feeble and Lord Hastings] New Century Theatre. The Old Vic Company, Lawrence Olivier 5
1945, May 20, 1946 – Jun 22, 1946 Actor / Stage Manager Oedipus Rex [Chorus of Theban Elders] New Century Theatre. The Old Vic Company, Lawrence Olivier 6
Sep 24 1946 – 1947 Actor / Stage Manager King Lear [gentleman, attendant on Cordelia] New Century Theatre. The Old Vic Company, Lawrence Olivier 14
1947 – 1948   The Taming of the Shrew New Century Theatre ibid.
17607 Stage Director Sailed for Australia on the Corinthic Sir Lawrence Olivier Party 7
3 – 17 April 1948 Stage Director Richard III Theatre Royal, Adelaide & tour. The Old Vic Company, Lawrence Olivier 8
12 – 17 April 1948 Stage Director The Skin of Our Teeth Theatre Royal, Adelaide & tour. The Old Vic Company, Lawrence Olivier 8
19 April – 12 June 1948 Stage Director The School for Scandal Princess Theatre Melbourne 8
15 – 19 June 1948 Stage Director The School for Scandal Theatre Royal, Hobart 8
29 June – August 1948 Stage Director The School for Scandal New Tivoli Theatre, Sydney 8
August – September 1948 Stage Director The School for Scandal His Majesty’s Theatre, Brisbane 8
17777 Stage Director The School for Scandal St. James Theatre, Auckland 8
17777 Stage Director The School for Scandal St. James Theatre, Christchurch 8
17777 Stage Director The School for Scandal His Majesty’s Theatre, Dunedin 8
17807 Stage Director The School for Scandal St. James Theatre, Wellington 8
Feb 2 – Jun 1 1949 Stage Director Antigone New Century Theatre 14
Feb 2 – Jun 1 1949 Stage Director The Proposal New Century Theatre ibid.
Aug 31 – Oct 8 1949 Stage Director Fading Mansion Duchess Theatre, Lawrence Olivier Productions ibid.
Mar 13 – Apr 15 1950 General Stage Director The Damascus Blade Bristol Hippodrome, Theatre Royal, Newcastle and other locations, Lawrence Olivier Productions ibid.
Jan 18 – Aug 5 1950 General Stage Director Venus Observed  [Original, Play, Comedy] St. James’s Theatre, London ibid.
Oct 11 – Dec 30 1950 General Stage Director Top of the Ladder St. James’s Theatre, London.  Laurence Olivier Productions ibid.
01/12/1951 Production Manager Sailed 1st class from Liverpool for New York on the Franconia, Cunard White Star Line. With wife Rosemary (Hill) and son Simon. Sir Lawrence Olivier Party 9
19 Dec 1951 – 11 April 1952 Production Manager Caesar and Cleopatra Ziegfeld Theatre, New York 6
Dec 20, 1951 – Apr 13, 1952 Production Manager Anthony and Cleopatra   Ziegfeld Theatre.  Laurence Olivier Productions, Ltd. 6
Feb 13, 1952 – Apr 26, 1952 Production Stage Manager Venus Observed  [Original, Play, Comedy] New Century Theatre. Laurence Olivier Productions, Ltd. 10
09/10/1952 Director The Hollow, Agatha Christie. McCarter Theatre, Princeton, USA. The Shuberts. 11
Oct 27 1952 – Nov 9, 1952 Director The Suspects, Agatha Christie. Plymouth Theatre, Boston, USA. The Shuberts. 12

References

1. Spotlight Summer 41. Photo by Basil Shackleton FIBP.
2. Spotlight Winter 41. Photo by Angus McBean.
3. The London Stage 1940-1949: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. By J. P. Wearing.
4. Internet Broadway Database. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · Tue, May 7, 1946 · Page 7.
5. Internet Broadway Database. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · Wed, May 8, 1946 · Page 12.
6. Internet Broadway Database.
7. S.S. Corinthic passenger list.
8. Laurence Olivier on stage and screen, Wikipedia.
9. RMS Franconia passenger list.
10. Internet Broadway Database (IBDB).
11. Daily News (New York) · Thu, Sep 11, 1952 · Page 687.
12. The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) · 12 Oct 1952, Sun · Page 120.
14. Theatricalia